Read what the independent team hired to look into Izzy Tichenor's harassment concluded about her teachers' lack of understanding of bullying and lack of empathy for the treatment Izzy was facing.
Their report, which was completed early last week but not released until late Friday before the district emptied for its spring break, likely won’t be the final word in the case that has drawn attention and criticism from across the state and country. Several community members denounced the findings this week, calling them disappointing and suggesting the review team missed the point.an activist with the Utah Black Roundtable and the Utah Educational Equity Coalition.
The team recommends extensive training among educators at the school to help them understand bullying and diversity and to fix the lack of empathy that it says contributed to their harmful attitudes to the girl and her family.Tichenor-Cox has said that she had reached out to Davis School District several times last fall to talk about how her daughter was being harassed by both classmates and teachers.
Foxboro Elementary staff told the review team that they spoke with teachers and reviewed surveillance. But they did not search the student’s backpack until three days later. They were unable to substantiate the allegations. But based on the information it did have — which included the other reports, 2,600 pages of personal records and 47 interviews — it could not concretely say that Izzy was bullied for her race or for having autism.
The teacher then, though, suggested to the review team that she doubted Izzy would even have understood what she was saying because of her “educational delays.” Another teacher also acknowledged that she told Izzy’s entire class that they smelled, which Tichenor-Cox had reported. The review team notes that the teacher told the mom that she had made comments like before and would not stop.
, where is said administrators and teacher ignored reports of racism and sometimes participated in it themselves. One educator told the team that she wanted her students to be tough and not taught to be “victims.” She said she encouraged those bullied to let hurtful comments “roll off [their] back.”
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